'I collect,' said Miss Crawford, 'that Sotherton is an old place, and a place of some grandeur. In any particular style of building?'

I have no income save what my pen brings me in the magazine and newspaper field. (Note that field is not plural; here he is thinking of both yellow journalism and yellow magazinism).

A veteran of the tough audiences on the black rhythm and blues circuit, Houston wastes no time noodling around on stage; he begins his show from the back of the club, screaming bansheelike saxophone war cries through a cordless microphone and slowly stalking through the crowd in the general direction of the bandstand.

Microsoft is a corporation with an extremely large bankroll.